experience. >> that's when it really started to click for me, this wasn't just my story, this was every veteran's story. i knew i needed to write the book so others would have something to point to and say, the same thing happened to me. >> the movie was painful but therapeutic for him. i think writing the book was the rest of his therapy. >> i'm don lemon in atlanta, thanks for watching 37 see you back here in one hour. "the situation room" begins right now. you're in the situation room. as the u.s. edges steadily closer to the fiscal cliff, there are high level talks between the white house and congress. can they cut a deal in time? as mexico's bloody drug wars claim another high profile victim can a new leader end the violence. i'll speak exclusively with mexico's new president. and it was hidden away for decades. we'll take the wraps off a long secret u.s. plan to explode a nuclear bomb on the moon. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around

the world. i'm wolf blitzer and you're in the situation room. we begin with huge confrontations shaping up between president obama and republicans involving the most important decisions the president needs to make in his second term. >> we're now a month away from the so called fiscal cliff. a drastic combination of mandatory spending cuts and tax hikes that could plunge the united states back into a recession. while there are plenty of hard w0rds from both sides, some terms of a possible zeal are making the rounds. kate bolduan has been following the back and fourth. >> don't get too excited about that, there's only one way to avoid the fiscal cliff.

spending cuts and tax hikes. house republicans and president obama need to strike a deal on reducing the national debt. they have soundly rejected a white house offer that included $1.6 trillion in revenue, $400 billion in medicare and other entitlement savings, as well as a permanent increase in the debt limit among other things. so far, the rhetoric has not softened. treasury secretary tim geithner arriving on capitol hill for high level talks, most notably with house speaker john boehner. >> good morning, everyone. >> how did it go? just listen. >> despite the claims that the president supports a balanced approach, the democrats have yet to get serious. about real spending cuts. >> a much gloomier assessment from the initial prethanksgiving huddle at the white house. boehner described his meeting with geithner as frank and direct, the same way he

described his phone call with the president the night before. and for the past two weeks there has been no substantive progress. >> most public statements have been optimistic, confident, hopeful. we're all sensing a very different tone from you right now. are you walking away from talks? have things completely broken down? >> no, no, no, no. stop. i'm disappointed in where we are, but going over the fiscal cliff is serious business. i'm here seriously trying to resolve it. and i would hope the white house would get serious as well. >> house democratic leader nancy pelosi quickly dismissed boehner's remarks as a negotiating maneuver. >> i think they'll come around. it's a tactic. it's a tactic. >> reporter: you hear a strikingly similar message from other top democratic leaders saying the ball is in the republican's court. >> we are waiting for some specifics somewhere from our

republican colleagues to show that they're serious on negotiations. >> reporter: as the country fast approaches the fiscal cliff, the two sides are talking past each other. democrats say they've laid down their marker, hiking tax rates on wealthier americans. and it's up to republicans to propose specific spending cuts they want to entitlement programs. however, republicans say they've offered a concession, putting revenue on the table. and they say it's now up to the president and his fellow democrats to feel some pain and proposed cuts in medicare and medicaid. confusing? we asked harry reid. >> where is the disconnect? >> i don't understand his brain. so you should ask him, okay? >> from capitol hill to the white house, democrats are standing firm, saying the major hurdle remains whether to raise tax rates.

what's next? where do things go? the top republican aide tells me they look forward to talking to the white house. >> time is still running out, too. >> and quickly. >> with us now are ryan lizza, the new yorker magazine's washington correspondent and cnn's senior political analyst ron bram's team. thank you both for coming in. ron, you wrote an interesting column, i just read it, in the national journal about democrats having a more unified coalition after the election in november. what sort of negotiating advantage is that supposed to give them in the fiscal cliff situation. >> i think it's almost the inverse of what we saw in 2010 after big democratic losses in that election. the caucus was divided in the house and senate on whether to extend the bush tax cuts for everyone. republicans were unified, they insisted it be extended for everyone. president obama ultimately made

a deal to extend them as you know, for two years for all taxpayers, which is how we are where we are now. democrats are virtually in lock step showing cracks, saying maybe we need to extend for those in the middle. it's a different circumstance. i think the leverage on the tax side, at least is clearly with the democrats, stalemates mean the tax cuts expired and democrats are more willing to live with that than republicans are. >> when you read between the lines here, senate am dids are more willing to go over the fiscal cliff. do you think that's real or are they just posturing for the sake of the negotiation? >> i think that's real, the white house has been signalling since the summer of this year, that they are -- if the republicans don't budge on the tax side, on the revenue side, they are willing to let those --

to let the deadline expire, let the bush tax cuts all go back to the 2001 levels and start from scratch next year in redoing the tax code. so this is why the white house, they hold the trump card here. if nothing happens, then the policy moves in the direction that the democrats, the democrats favor direction, not exactly what the democrats want, but it moves in the direction that the white house wants. and that frankly is why many republicans, not exactly a stampede, but quite a few are saying, look, the white house has won the argument here over the top rates, let's take 98% of the bush tax cuts and get a good deal on entitlements. i think frankly, everyone realizes that's where this is headed. >> do you remember back during the t.a.r.p. negotiations, it seems like ages ago, the market dropped by something like 800 points. should we be worried about

what's happening with the markets right now? >> there's a growing argument on the left that the white house is using too many scare tactics about the fiscal cliff and it's actually not a fiscal cliff, you hear a lot of liberals saying it's a slope. and the world is not going to end if we go over it. now, you won't finds too many people in the administration who agree with that. they worry about the psychology, the markets. and frankly just the drama associated with hitting that deadline and washington's inability to deal with this deadline. they worry about that. but the growing argument on the left, is that the white house shouldn't be so concerned. they should just call the republicans bluff. >> the democrats like to say that they got a mandate out of the last election. but do you think that's true? certainly, it's stronger in the senate for them, but republicans still control the house. >> on this question of letting tax rates for those at the top -- the lower tax rates expire for those at the top, there is a mandate. polling has been consistent for

years, and we saw in the exit poll. 60% of voters overall, and more importantly, 80% of obama voters is more unified democratic coalition support letting the tax rates expire. that's why i think you see democrats -- that's why you see democrats being much more adamant on that, certainly than they were in 2010. look, i think the country wants a zeal, and like ryan, i think we're going to get a deal. at some point in the next six months, we're going to end up with a tax rate for those at the top that is higher than it is now, but lower than it was under bill clinton. it's going to be messy getting there, but a higher rate for those at the top seems to be an inevitable outcome of this. >> speaking of messy, the progressives love to get on the bandwagon on that one issue. what are they going to do when the president starts moving against entitlements? >> well, you know, what's interesting on that, republicans gambled and lost, i think in the summer of 2011, president obama

showed willingness to go much further on entitlements than he is today. he'll end up going further on a deal than he is now. but not as far as he would have then. he will have to confront his party. that's part of the definition of being president, saying no to your own side. there's a case to be made to liberals, if you do not constrain entitlements in the long run. what you're doing is squeezing all the discretionary investment s. there's a case for controlling the entitlement spending. the republicans gambled and lost during the debt ceiling talks of 2011. >> let's leave it there. good to talk to you. critical advances by syrian rebels shooting down regime warplanes. arwa damon reports from inside syria. we'll take you there next. [ male announcer ] this is bob,

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appear to be gaining momentum. cnn's senior international correspondent arwa damon is in syria. she was able to visit an area where rebels say they shot down a government jet. >> children on the back of a tractor make a sizable tangled lump of metal. now a trophy of war, proudly shown off. we want to take these pieces to show them to the orvilleages, he says. let them see what happened to these planes. everyone we speak to here describes the fear they felt any time they heard a jet overhead. for them, this is the greatest victory. >> the wreckage is being picked through pretty quickly by young and old alike. resident thes are telling us, as soon as the strike took place, they began rushing to the scene.

one man we spoke to said he was picking olives, he saw the plane being hit and the two pilots ejecting. at that point everyone fanned out, looking for them. he and others are telling us that one pilot was found unconscious with a head injury. >> video posted to youtube shows a man in military uniform, seemingly unconscious, being carried away. as a man offcamera states, here is the pilot who is shelling the houses of civilians. another clip is of him in a makeshift field clinic, head bandaged a voice says this is the fate of your pilots. and this is not an isolated incident. in the same vicinity, close to the city, in the span of 24 hours, rebels claim they not only brought down this fighter jet, but also two helicopters. video posted to youtube shows a trail of smoke and a helicopter

bursting into flames. there's no way for us to confirm when and where this happened. these dramatic developments are the result of a pitched battle fought here at the 46 regiment base just over a week ago. for nearly two months, they lay siege to the base after clearing the villages around it of assad's forces and positioning rebel snipers in the area. they waited for their enemy to weaken. the government would try to airdrop supplies from helicopters, they didn't dare land he says. and most times they would miss. and we would take the foot. it was inedible. dozens defected. and even more we are told were killed. the final battle to take this massive base lasted 24 hours. rebel fighters used artillery they captured from another unit on the base, firing it into the

building and ending the battle. for this rebel unit there was a treasure trove of weaponry. and most important of all, anti-aircraft missiles. hundreds of them. though not all functioning, the fighters tell us. video posted to youtube right after the assault took place, shows stacks of metal boxes packed with soviet era anti-aircraft missiles. another video posted is explaining how to arm and launch the missiles and ensure that they're locked in on their target. the regime still has the military advantage, thanks to the sheer size of its arsenal. the balance it seems may have ever so slightly shifted. >> arwa's joining us from northern syria right now on the phone. arwa, is it the sense these rebels have, that they see some light at the end of the tunnel? >> reporter: all of the rebel

fighters at some point in time, they are going to win this battle quite simply because they say they have come so far on their own. they feel as if the international community has completely abandoned them. they say despite that, they have managed to make all of these significant gains. they have not yet lost the fight. in fact, they are gaining territory by the day, by the week. there are areas of northern syria, where two months ago, they were under the grass of outside forces. right now, there are signs of life returning. civilians are there. there are no signs -- >> you've told me over these past few days, arwa, that the longer this drags on and on and on and this bloody civil war

continues, the more you're seeing some evidence that extremist elements, if you will, jihadists, those sympathizing with al qaeda may exploit the civil war and take advantage of it. what's going on in that front. >> the situation has existed for quite some time now. the extremist groups move in. that is what we're seeing taking place. bear in mind that right now, they are a minority, they are a fringe element. but as one rebel commander put it, the longer assad stays in power, the more powerful these groups are going to grow. that's going to become a problem that neither the syrian opposition nor the united states is -- or any other western or other nation is going to want to see materialize. given just how volatile the region already is. as long as the battle takes place. as long as the extreme fighters are the ones willing to take up

arms in some cases bringing in significant amounts of money with them. that is all the opposition has to turn to. they are trying to control these groups. but they will admit they're very frustrated and disgruntled by this. these various students do not follow the rebel chain of command. they're not necessarily following orders by the syrian army. they may be trying to reign them in, they're growing more powerful by the day. >> stay safe arwa, thank you very much. she's doing an amazing job for all of us. the looming fiscal cliff could force politicians to make some tough decisions. one of the hardest could involve a popular tax break enjoyed by millions of americans, we have details just ahead. stay with us in the situation room. two years ago, the people of bp made a commitment to the gulf.

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the fiscal cliff means a lot of things are on the cutting block right now. one involves the most dependable of cuts are mortgages. >> you basically have 270 degrees of pure ocean. >> amazing views, luxury bathrooms and a gourmet kitchen. the owner of this $8 million penthouse in coconut grove, florida is eager to sell it before the end of the year. capital gains taxes will go up for homeowners with a lot of

equity in their homes selling now could make a big difference. >> if you're looking at a $10 million sale price and 5 mill$5 million equity in the home, the capital gains is $5 million. in theory, there's a half a million dollar savings for seller and buyer to get the deal done. >> some possible outcomes of the fiscal clif negotiations could have a major impact on you. congress could limit the amount of home mortgage interest homeowners could write off on their taxes. one proposal would cap the deduction at $500,000, half of what it now is. lawmakers also may limit tax breaks for second homes. distressed homeowners also could see major changes ahead. the mortgage debt relief act which waves tax obligation on the portions of the mortgage being forgiven is set to expire

at the end of the year. new estate tax rules will likely kick in. the exemption level drops back down to $1 million from the current $5 million. that's causing a mad scramble to pass real estate and other assets down to children and grandchildren. >> it's like a feeding frenzy, everyone's worried that at the end of this year, there's only going to be a small amount, which is a million dollars that will pass free of estate tax and gift tax. they want to lock in the exemption this year, before it goes away. >> possibly, the worst thing for the housing market is if there's no compromise and we end up going off that fiscal cliff, and then there's a sharp cut in government spending. that could push the economy into a recession, raising the unemployment rate and that could push home values back down, wolf. >> a serious problem for a lot of people. let's hope we don't go over that fiscal cliff. >> fingers crossed they will reach a compromise.

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drug wars in recent years. finding new strategies to tackle mexico's drug violence is certainly one of the top agenda items of the new president. that will need continued close relationships with the united states. we sat down for an exclusive interview. >> what's the biggest problem in u.s./mexican relations right now? >> translator: greater trust in our relationship. i think the first meeting with mr. obama is for us to get to know each other. i'm convinced a good relationship with countries begins with a good relationship with governments. a recollectionship that would

allow us to understand the world affairs and the world -- basic disagreement will reach a relationship of brotherhood. >> there have been record deportations in the obama administration from the united states of undocumented workers back into mexico. >> i think we have to work at this issue. especially to get proper treatment for the people in the end. i don't have the proper papers, also, i see with great understanding the proposal that president obama has offered to reach immigration reform. it's an issue, and there's american politics. which government sees with great favor. >> why are fewer mexicans seeking to crossover into the united states now? >> because we have -- right now

mexico has a great opportunity in my opinion, to reach economic growth. there are two main issues of my agenda of my proposal. i want to be focusing in for the next few years on economic growth to reach greater social benefits. that i think is going to be the best prevention of my government to establish organized crime, so as to avoid the millions of compatriots from my country have no other option -- >> the mexican ambassador here in washington. he said that the mexican government was left in his words in the dark by that so-call ed fast and furious operation that resulted in the killing of the u.s. border guard. will you take steps to make sure that can never happen again? >> to be frank, i told president obama -- i'm going to tell president obama to try to

avoid -- they had knowledge of -- i think a good relationship that mexico could maintain with the united states and vice versa should be based on openness and constant dialogue that would allow us to define share objectives and to work toward those so as to avoid activities which are not known -- >> we just learned that a well known mexican mayor, maria santos was killed, was murdered. can you give us your reaction to what's going on? >> my country has to allow us to be intimidated to allow the authorities to be intimidated by crime. i think one of the changes that i have to -- that my government must reach, we have a greater

coordination of efforts. every level of government is a task for the state as a hole. it involves all three powers of the state. it involves all the authorities, so that events like the one you just mentioned will not happen again in our country. >> what do you think of the legalization effort of marijuana in states like colorado, washington state. is that going to help or hurt? >> translator: personally, i don't agree with the regulation of drugs. it's not just about legalizing marijuana, it's a door that would eventually cause for sectors of the population to consume drugs which are much more harmful the united states could possibly in the future, in your future, do a refocusing of the strategy we use. i'm convinced and open to the

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the teenager shot for advocating education for girls, for one pakistani journalist it almost cost him his life. joining us now from islamabad, one of pakistan's most prominent journalists, he's the executive editor of gotv. thanks for coming in. i'm glad to see you. i'm glad you survived this assassination attempt. how did you discover this bomb that was under your car? >> that was only a good luck because the driver of my

neighbors, he saw it installed under my car with a magnet. he warned my driver there is something under your car please check it. my driver checked it. and he was suspicious because it was a bag. then he informed me, i was preparing myself to go to the office. and i was already informed by the department and some security -- also from the police that i'm under threat and i should be careful. so that's why i informed the bomb disposal squad of the 30, 35 minutes to diffuse the bomb. >> the taliban as you know, has claimed responsibility for wanting to kill you because of your coverage of that young pakistani school girl who was burned badly, flown to britain

for treatment a spokesman said, we have advise ed journalists t be moderate. if they don't understand our advice, we send explosives or suicide bombers. what's your response to that? >> wolf, look, that taliban spokesperson, he sent me a six page letter a few weeks back and warned me i should not support malala. after receiving his letter, i wrote a column and spoke in my tv show that i will not accept your dictation. and i will continue my support for malala. and he sent me a message through one of my colleagues that we will send some suicide bombers. today the same colleague of mine, he was contacted again by the taliban spokesperson.

he told me the same message, that this time you survived. but next time you will not survive. and they want me to -- they warn me that i should not support malala, i should not say that attacking malala was a bads thing. can i not surrender to the taliban. they warn i should not speak against them. if i stop, it's a surrender to taliban. i will not surrender to taliban. the little girl called me from the hospital last night and she was giving me a lot of strength. she can stand against the taliban, and she's a little girl, 14, 15-year-old girl, i should stand against taliban. the people of pakistan gave me a demand. i should stand with the people of pakistan who face terrorist

attacks every day. most of my colleagues in travel areas, they're more vulnerable than me, they are facing more threats than me. from taliban and also the security offensive. i am sitting in the capital, yes? i should not surrender the taliban, i will not. and today just a few hours back, i spoke in my show. and i responded back to the taliban spokesperson, you think that you can terrorize me, i will not stop. and i will keep opposing you. >> are you suggesting hammad that pakistani security services in addition to the taliban may also have played a role in this assassination attempt against y you? >> wolf, it's a very complicated situation. nine months ago, the committee to protect journalists in new

york and some other media outfits. they issued a statement, and i also endorsed the statement, and i was facing threats from some security officials. at that time, they established a special committee to investigate those threats. they never came out with concrete result. there was no result of their investigation. i cannot make a judgment right now, and i will leave it to the investigation authorities. yes, taliban authorities have threatened me in the recent past and a few months back. i am scared of both of them. but i will not leave pakistan, i will not stop speaking the truth. >> hammad, good luck to you. be careful over there. we know the important work that you're doing, and we wish you

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. sounds preposterous, but the u.s. hatched a plan during the cold war to possibly nuke the moon. cnn's brian todd's got the latest on this very bizarre story. bizarre, but true. what happened? >> wolf, as you know, in the 1950s there were all sorts of wild ideas floating around inside the halls of government back in the height of the cold war in the 1950s. there were security scares all around. american leaders felt they needed to give a jolt to the soviet union so athe time, this didn't seem so outlandish. >> fire. >> just think of what a nuclear explosion would look like up

there. the u.s. government once considered it. cnn has documents and interviewed the leader of a once secret air force project titled a study of lunar research flights, with a just as low brow nickname, project a-119. what was it really? >> to evaluate the value of putting a small, emphasize small in this world anyhow, nuclear explosion on the moon. >> reporter: physicist leonard rifle, now 85 years old, led the project in 1958. it was the height of the cold war. america and the soviet union were in a nuclear arms race. the soviets 4 h just launched the first satellite, sputnik, and were ahead in the space race. u.s. officials needed a big splash. >> in comparison, the united states feared -- was feared to be looking puny, so this was a concept to sort of reassure people that the united states

could maintain a mutually assured deterrence and therefore avoid any huge conflagration on earth. >> reporter: according to rifle's declassified report on the project, team leaders also thought they could get information concerning the capability of nuclear weapons for space warfare. rifle says the plan called for an intercontinental ballistic missile to be launched from an undisclosed location, travel 240,000 miles to the moon, and detonate on impact. various news reportes say they considered using a bomb the same size as the one dropped on hiroshima, but rifle now says he wasn't in on those discussions. could the blast as some news reports suggest have actually blown up the moon? >> absolutely not. it would have been microscopic, so to speak, would have left a crater that would have been, i think, essentially invisible from earth, even with a good telescope. >> reporter: rifle had some brilliant minds on his team. one of them, an up and coming graduate student named carl sagan, who went on to become one of the world's most renowned

astronomers. later on, rifle said, sagan violated security when he mentioned the still classified project on a job application. sagan's widow told us she's not sure if he ever did that, but if he did, it wasn't intentional. by 1959, project a-119 was drawing more concern than excitement and was abandoned. >> we didn't want to clutter up the natural radioactivities of the moon with additional bits of radioactivity from the earth. >> rifle says other factors in killing the project were that they were not sure of the reliability of the weapons, the possible nuclear deterrent against the soviet union wouldn't have been worth the gamble and a lot of public backlash in the u.s. contacted by cnn, the air force would not comment on project a-119, even 54 years later. >> pretty amazing. you also got gosome new detailsn considered efforts to deploy nuclear weapons in space. >> dr. rifle says in military

circle at that time generally they discussed the idea of making the moon what they called a military high ground. sounds crazy, but that involved possibly having nuclear launch sites on the moon. the thinking was if the soviets hit the united states with nuclear weapons, and wiped out america's ability to hit back, then america could launch warheads from the moon. he says this is a horrendous scenario and he's glad this is in the realm of science fiction right now. he hopes it stays there. >> fascinating stuff historically speaking, thank you very much, brian. tells us a lot about that era. up next, a different story, christmas carols with a touch tone twist. jeanne moos on the new way to sing holiday favorites. cute. but don't you have any apps on your phone that can make your life easier? who do you think i am, quicken loans? at quicken loans, we'll provide you with myql mobile. this amazingly useful app allows you to take pictures of your mortgage documents using an iphone or android smart phone... so you can easily send them to us. one more way quicken loans is engineered to amaze.

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